“Really skilful people never get out of time, and are always deliberate, and never appear busy.”
Miyamoto Musashi A Book of Five Rings
In my latest Loonie Politics column, I explain why whoever wins the American election it will be so bad that both parties should be ashamed.
In my latest Epoch Times column I say puzzling polls suggesting the federal Liberals would win a snap election easily, despite a record as disappointing to friends as infuriating to foes, indicate that there’s something wrong with the Opposition and just possibly the electorate as well.
In my latest National Post column I say now that the Department of Finance has discovered, again, that people emerging from poverty face a very high marginal tax rate as benefits are withdrawn, it needs to rediscover that there is no technical solution here, only a tough call as to how to live with it.
“no rational creature can be supposed to change his condition with an intention to be worse”
John Locke The Second Treatise of Government
“Hurry! I never hurry. I have no time to hurry.”
“Igor Stravinsky, responding to his publisher’s request that he hurry his completion of a composition” quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail August 6, 2004
“Economic activists are not irrational. When they are punished for success, they avoid success. When they are rewarded for success, they act more creatively.”
Robert Novak Will It Liberate?
“‘The idea that going to the beach was good for you was a creation of 18th-century Britain,’ writes Charles Leadbeater in Prospect magazine. ‘Entrepreneurs keen to promote an alternative to the spa hit upon the idea that immersing people in cold salty water might be healthy. One of the first recorded bathing expeditions took to the North Sea at Scarborough in 1627. A century later, a string of seaside alternatives to the spas at Bath and Buxton were well established. Before that, beaches had been regarded as hostile places, at best a working space for people who made their living from the sea: fishermen, smugglers, wreckers. Swimming for pleasure, and sunbathing, were unheard of.’”
“Social Studies” in Globe & Mail September 15, 2004